Over the years we’ve been treated to a lot of reasons why we’re not supposed to use illegal drugs, though most of those reasons are pretty damn silly. The most recent spate of cheesily-animated anti-pot ads are even trying to suggest that marijuana is addictive. It’s not.
And of course Nancy Reagan, wife of useless (and now dead*) president Ronald Reagan, coined the “Just Say No” phrase, which probably stands as a high-water mark in the history of cortex-free attempts at social engineering.
But I think I’ve finally hit upon the very best reason not to use hard drugs ever.
“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” [Stones guitarist Keith] Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
I’ve never really felt tempted to use cocaine. Given the foregoing, that lack of temptation has become considerably more like ewwwww, fuck no.
Thanks, Keith.
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* Thus, slightly more useful now.
17:29 on April 7th, 2007
That’s funny, because it came back in my local thread-email-newsnetwork today. Someone had labelled it as an AprilFoolsJoke and Gill asked, “You mean he didn’t?”
I said it was plausible, given the admitted-addict and the quirky way they think when high, and finished with this question:
Wait! Disney fired him from the PotC promo-tour–was it because he did it? Or was it because Keith said he did it but didn’t do it but it looks bad for Disney?
22:03 on April 7th, 2007
Good question. I’m thinking if he’d snorted Disney’s frozen crystals it might have been hard to handle.
Keith Richards Got Head from Walt Disney!
Let’s not explore rodents and recta. This is a family blog.